Replication Data for 'Populists and Diplomats: Negotiated Agency of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs'
Author: Muhammed Hasim Tekines


File Name: Political Ambassadors
Description: The data includes total distribution of political appointments based on host countries' membership to international organizations. The goal is to see to which group of countries the Turkish government appointments its political appointments. The international organizations are chosen according to their importance for the Turkish Foreign Policy. 8 countries are included in more than one organization.
Date of Collection: December 2024
Variables: 'Organizations' column includes the names of relevant international organizations or groups. 'Political Appointments' column includes the total number of political appointments that are send to member countries since 2002.

File Name: Political Appointments Per Year
Description: The data illustrates the distribution of political appointments to years and countries since 2002. 
Date of Collection: December 2024
Variables: 'Countries' column includes the list of countries. Following columns are the years. The cells includes the number of months that a political appointment served. If an ambassador began his/her tenure in June 5 2022, 2022 is coded as '7' since that ambassador served 7 months in 2022. If the ambassador began his/her tenure after 15th day of the month, the count started with the following month.

File Name: Recruits
Description: The data illustrates the total number of annual diplomatic hirings to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of Collection: December 2024
Variables: 'Years' column shows the list of years since 2002. 'MM' column shows the number of annual hiring of political officers. 'KIM' column shows the number of annual hiring of consular officers. 'Annual New Hirings' column is the sum of the 'MM' and the 'KIM' columns.
Note: Since the annual hirings data was not available before 2009 at the website of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the data for 2002-2008 years are approximated based on interviews.

File Name: Turkish Diplomatic Missions
Description: The Data shows the number of Turkish diplomatic missions per year.
Date of Collection: December 2024
Variables: First column shows the years. 'Embassy' column indicates Turkey's total number of embassies in the relevant year. 'Permanent Delegation' column indicates Turkey's total number of Permanent Delegations to international organizations in the relevant year. 'Consulate' column indicates Turkey's total number of consulates in the relevant year.